Synonyms of the word

balance

• n. (uncountable) a state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
• n. (uncountable) mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
• n. something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium (literally or figuratively); counterweight.
• n. a pair of scales.
• n. (uncountable) awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
• n. (uncountable) the overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately…
• n. (uncountable) apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
• n. (accounting) a list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
• n. (accounting) the result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
• n. (watchmaking) a device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
• n. (law) the remainder.
• n. (obsolete, astrology) Libra.
• v. (transitive) To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To make (concepts) agree.
• v. (transitive) To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from…
• v. (transitive) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
• v. (transitive, dancing) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
• v. (nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
• v. (transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
• v. (intransitive) To be in equilibrium.
• v. (intransitive) To have matching credits and debits.

account

• n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
• n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
• n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
• n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
• n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
• n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
• n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• n. An authorization to use a service.
• n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• n. Profit; advantage.
• v. to provide explanation.
• v. to count.

arrangement

• n. The act of arranging.
• n. The manner of being arranged.
• n. A collection of things that have been arranged.
• n. A particular way in which items are organized.
• n. (in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.
• n. An agreement.
• n. (music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

bear

• n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
• n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
• n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
• n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
• n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
• n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
• n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
• v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
• adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
• v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
• v. (transitive) To carry something.
• v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
• v. (transitive) To wear or display.
• v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
• v. (transitive) To put up with something.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
• v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
• v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
• v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
• v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
• v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
• v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
• v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
• v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
• v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
• v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
• v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
• n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
• n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

calculate

• v. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical…
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
• v. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
• v. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other…
• v. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of…

carry

• v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
• v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
• v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
• v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
• v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
• v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
• v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
• v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
• v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
• v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
• v. To be pregnant (with).
• v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
• v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
• v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
• v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
• v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
• v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
• v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
• v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
• n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
• n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
• n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

component

• n. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part…
• adj. Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
• adj. Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

correspondence

• n. (uncountable) Friendly discussion.
• n. (uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
• n. (countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
• n. (uncountable) Newspaper or news stories, generally.
• n. (countable) A postal or other written communication.
• n. (uncountable) Postal or other written communications.
• n. (set theory, countable) A relation.

counterbalance

• n. (literally) A weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance.
• n. (figuratively) A force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one.
• v. (transitive) To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight.
• v. (transitive) To apply force in order to balance an opposite one.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To match or equal in effect, but acting in opposition.

counterpoise

• n. A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
• n. An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
• n. The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.
• v. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
• v. To act against with equal power; to balance.

counterweight

• n. A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised…
• v. (transitive) To fit with a counterweight.

difference

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
• n. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
• n. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
• n. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
• n. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
• n. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
• n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be…
• n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

equaliser

• n. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of equalizer.

equality

• n. The fact of being equal.
• n. (mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
• n. The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.

equalizer

• n. One who makes equal; a balancer.
• n. (sports) A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score.
• n. A electronic audio device for altering the frequencies of sound recordings.
• n. A device, such as a bar, for operating two brakes, especially a pair of hub brakes for an automobile,…
• n. Any device for equalizing the pull of electromagnets.
• n. A conductor of low resistance joining the armature ends of the series field coils of dynamos connected…
• n. A sliding panel to preserve the lateral stability of an aeroplane.
• n. (mathematics) A set of arguments where two or more functions have equal values; the solution set of an…
• n. (category theory) A morphism whose codomain is the domain of a parallel pair of morphisms and which forms…

equilibrate

• v. (transitive) To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
• v. (intransitive) To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.

equilibrium

• n. The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
• n. (physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it…
• n. (chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
• n. Mental balance.

equilibrize

• v. (transitive) To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
• v. (intransitive) To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.

equipoise

• n. A state of balance; equilibrium.
• n. A counterbalance.
• v. (transitive) To act or make to act as an equipoise.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be or stay in equipoise.

fit

• adj. Suitable, proper.
• adj. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
• adj. In good shape; physically well.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful.
• adj. Prepared; ready.
• v. (transitive) To be suitable for.
• v. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
• v. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape.
• v. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
• v. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
• v. (transitive) To equip or supply.
• v. (transitive) To make ready.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
• v. To be proper or becoming.
• v. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
• n. The degree to which something fits.
• n. Conformity of elements one to another.
• n. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
• n. (advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
• n. (statistics) goodness of fit.
• n. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
• n. A seizure or convulsion.
• n. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
• n. A sudden outburst of emotion.
• n. A sudden burst (of an activity).
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

house

• n. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
• n. The people who live in a house; a household.
• n. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
• n. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or…
• n. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre,…
• n. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
• n. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a…
• n. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
• n. (figuratively) a place of rest or repose.
• n. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
• n. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
• n. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
• n. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
• n. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
• n. Lotto; bingo.
• n. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
• v. (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
• v. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
• v. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
• v. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
• v. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
• v. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
• v. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
• v. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
• n. (music) House music.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

mansion

• n. A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
• n. (Britain) A luxurious flat (apartment).
• n. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
• n. (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
• n. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
• n. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings…
• n. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

placement

• n. The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
• n. A location or position.
• n. The act of matching a person with a job.

poise

• n. (obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
• n. The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
• n. That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
• n. A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
• n. Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
• n. Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
• n. A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
• n. (physics) A cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter.
• v. (obsolete) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
• v. (obsolete) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
• v. (obsolete) To be of a given weight; to weigh.
• v. (obsolete) To add weight to, to weigh down.
• v. (now rare) To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose.
• v. To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used.
• v. To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced.
• v. To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

proportion

• n. (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
• n. (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
• n. (countable) Proper or equal share.
• n. The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
• n. (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
• n. (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
• v. (art) To set or render in proportion.

proportionality

• n. (uncountable) the property of being proportional.
• n. (uncountable) the principle that government action ought to be proportional to the ends achieved (e.g…
• n. (countable) the degree to which something is in proportion.

remainder

• n. A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed.
• n. (mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend…
• n. (mathematics) The number left over after a simple subtraction.
• n. (commerce) Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.
• n. (law) An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the…
• adj. remaining.
• v. (commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.

residual

• adj. Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.
• n. A remainder left over at the end of some process.
• n. (in the plural) Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
• n. (statistics) the difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest.

residue

• n. Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
• n. (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
• n. (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are…
• n. (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and…
• n. (mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function…

residuum

• n. The residue, remainder or rest of something.
• n. (chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated;…
• n. (law) The residue of an estate.

rest

• n. (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
• n. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
• n. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
• n. (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state…
• n. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
• n. (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
• n. (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
• n. (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
• n. (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the…
• n. (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
• n. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
• n. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
• n. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
• n. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals…
• n. (dated) A set or game at tennis.
• v. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without…
• v. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
• v. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest.
• v. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding,…
• v. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
• v. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
• v. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
• v. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
• v. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
• n. (uncountable) That which remains.
• n. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
• n. (Britain, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the…
• v. (obsolete) To remain.
• v. (obsolete) To arrest.

scale

• n. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
• n. An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
• n. Size; scope.
• n. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
• n. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified…
• n. A means of assigning a magnitude.
• n. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
• n. A mathematical base for a numeral system.
• n. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative…
• v. (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process…
• v. (transitive) To climb to the top of.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting…
• v. (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
• n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of…
• n. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their…
• n. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
• n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that…
• n. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
• n. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
• n. Limescale.
• n. A scale insect.
• n. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
• v. (transitive) To remove the scales of.
• v. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
• v. (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
• v. (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
• v. (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
• n. A device to measure mass or weight.
• n. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

sign

• n. (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication.
• n. A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
• n. (astrology) An astrological sign.
• n. (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity. (Note: it is improper to place a sign on the number zero).
• n. A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically,…
• n. (uncountable) Sign language in general.
• n. An omen.
• n. (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, is unlikely to be noticed…
• n. A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
• v. To make a mark.
• v. To make the sign of the cross.
• v. To indicate.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

spatiality

• n. The condition of being spatial.
• n. The effect of spatial position on a system.

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

symmetricalness

• n. The quality of being symmetrical.

symmetry

• n. Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
• n. (uncountable) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.

weight

• n. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical…
• n. An object used to make something heavier.
• n. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
• n. Importance or influence.
• n. (weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
• n. (physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
• n. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
• n. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
• n. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
• n. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
• n. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
• n. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
• n. Pressure; burden.
• n. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
• v. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
• v. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
• v. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
• v. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

wheel

• n. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing…
• n. A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
• n. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
• n. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• n. (automotive) A wheelrim.
• n. A round portion of cheese.
• n. A Catherine wheel firework.
• n. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
• n. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
• n. (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
• v. (intransitive or transitive) To roll along on wheels.
• v. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
• v. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
• v. (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.